Boots Riley Quotes

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

Even before I was in New York, I couldn't even count how many places I lived in L.A. Definitely over 10.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

I'm an army brat - so I grew up traveling every two to four years.

When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years, and then we'd move again. That was just for my dad's work.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot.

We moved around a ton when I was a kid. I think we lived in 9 different houses before I was 15 - we moved from the city back to the suburbs; different suburbs, different houses, all over the place.

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.

I spent a large part of my 20s and 30s living in different places, including tower blocks.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.